We are no longer talking about how taking the life of a plant or an animal for the sake of momentary joy does not seem reasonable.
We are no longer talking about how being guided by a culture of consumption instead of a culture of creation does not seem like a healthy idea.
Now, we are talking about physical survival.
On a physical level, we have the ability to influence only as long as we are alive.
We are alive as long as we are in an environment that can support our life.
By destroying the environment, which is a necessary condition for our existence, we deprive ourselves of the ability to influence.
We use our influence today to deprive ourselves of the ability to influence tomorrow.
A paradox.
Tell us something about the natural world that you love and don’t wish to lose. What are your thoughts on the kind of world we are leaving for the next generation?
For some reason, humanity tends to label everything around it as "now I will perceive this gift as the norm."
If you never leave your apartment for a year and then are immediately transported and released into the forest by a pond ...
You close your eyes, breathe in this air, hear the birds singing, the sound of the wind, the sound of the water, feel and remember how originally alive and bright the world we live in is.
Perhaps then you will be able to remember what a wonderful world of nature surrounds you and what an amazing gift it is, and perhaps you will begin to treat nature as an important, dear gift.
I don't think that we should leave anything to our future generations. I think that we should carefully pass on to them the optimal world for their existence.
And how can interdisciplinary initiatives like One Planet Podcast and The Creative Process that bring together voices across the sciences, arts, and the environment help inspire change?
The only way to act purposefully is to shift your focus to where you act. Anything that is a working tool for such a shift of attention toward the creation of an optimal world is an inspiration and contributes to change.
What was the inspiration for your creative work?
I do not think that I can clearly answer where exactly the inspiration came from. My painting did not come to me immediately in the form in which you can contemplate it today, the painting, like the idea itself, underwent a transformation of form and concept in order to eventually acquire its final form.
